Archive Search

Feature

Steroids Confidential

Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

By Nic Foit, Ira Tes

Published: September 26, 2007

Prison changes a man. Makes him hard and cold, "like the frozen earth itself," as Hemingway once observed. Only returning to the outside has allowed Marlon Leftwich to thaw his spirit, to warm his...

News

Chinatown Power Players Behind Ed Jew Smokescreen, Source Says

By Mary Spicuzza

Published: September 26, 2007

Rex Reginald is a very busy man. He's working to gather donations for K-9 Armor, a program that would outfit San Francisco's police dogs with bulletproof vests. On the national media stage, he...

Sucka Free City

Lexington Club Violence Stories Show Anti-Hipster Bias

By Ephraim the Track Bike

Published: September 26, 2007

Hi! Like a middle-aged faux-British pop star trying to claw her way out of irrelevance by collecting African orphans, I, Ephraim the Track Bike, once a popular advice columnist in these pages,...

Sucka Free City

Frankovich: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Disables Wheelchair Access Attorney

By Ron Russell

Published: September 26, 2007

Tom Frankovich, the flamboyant San Francisco disabilities lawyer whose clients are known for filing serial lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act, has suffered a key setback before the...

Letters

Week of September 26-October 2, 2007

Published: September 26, 2007

Bad Brains and Bad Vibes Oi!: Fuck the Bad Brains! Their homophobic acts of violence and vandalism against the late, much-beloved Randy "Biscuit" Turner and the Big Boys will never be...

Music

LoveFest Promises 65,000 Ravers Listening to DJ Dan and Donald Glaude at City Hall

By Tamara Palmer

Published: September 26, 2007

San Francisco LoveFest is our annual parade of DJ-laden floats bumping beats and attitude down Market Street, conga-lining their way to a giant tailgater at Civic Center Plaza. While LoveFest is...

Music

Beirut’s Zach Condon Brasses Up the Herbst Theatre

The Flying Club Cup forsakes Eastern European baroque for a more nuanced, French-influenced sound.

By Ben Westhoff

Published: September 26, 2007

Zach Condon's commitment to his anachronistic, European-influenced music is apparent upon entering his new Brooklyn apartment. He has turned the big room into a studio, and he sleeps in what's...

Music

Charlie Musselwhite Spent the Summer of Love with the Blues

The Harmonica Honcho

By Mark Keresman

Published: September 26, 2007

When the Bay Area's Summer of Love is discussed, the chat chiefly regards the music, politics, and drugs that shaped a generation — but that discussion is nearly always focused on rock 'n'...

Let's Get Killed

San Francisco Symphony’s Opening Gala Gives an Indie Critic the Night Off

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: September 26, 2007

Most music snobs try really hard to convince themselves they're not music snobs. Or at least I do. I never wanted to be that killjoy who grunts in disgust when someone excitedly purchases an...

Reviewed

Imperial Teen

The Hair, the TV, the Baby &the Band (Merge)

By Dan Strachota

Published: September 26, 2007

Musically, Imperial Teen's fourth full-length CD, The Hair, the TV, the Baby & the Band , doesn't sound that much different from its first, Seasick , released way back in 1996. There's still...

Reviewed

Balkan Beat Box

Nu Med (J-Dub)

By Toph One

Published: September 26, 2007

Imagine the frantic live drumming of Crash Worship mixed with the chorus girls from a Russian circus, throw in some wailing Eastern European horns, and you've got the tip of the Balkan Beat Box...

Reviewed

Bonde do Role

With Lasers (Domino)

By Nate Patrin

Published: September 26, 2007

College radio stations everywhere better thank their lucky stars the FCC doesn't understand Portuguese. Bonde do Role has caught on recently in indie circles thanks to the band's associations with...

Reviewed

Chemical Brothers

We Are the Night (Astralwerks)

By Toph One

Published: September 26, 2007

On their sixth album of new material, the Chemical Brothers aren't breaking much new ground. But if you've been a fan of their big, floor-filling anthems from records past, you'll find plenty of...

Reviewed

Mekons

Natural (Quarterstick)

By Mark Keresman

Published: September 26, 2007

The Mekons are one of the few surviving bands from the "glory days" of punk rock — indeed, '07 marks their 30th anniversary. The reason for their longevity — aside from the members'...

Hear This

The Energys: hot-wired Japanese punk explodes in S.F.

By Annie Zaleski, Phil Freeman, John Graham, Eric K. Arnold, Jonah Bayer, Dave Pehling

Published: September 26, 2007

Morrissey has turned from a gangly egghead into a debonair crooner without losing his self-deprecating wit: At his birthday show in May, the suit-clad singer gestured to himself and dryly said,...

BeatBox

Paul Van Dyk: hardest working Berliner in showbiz

By Andy Beta, Tony Ware, Tamara Palmer

Published: September 26, 2007

With the passing of James Brown late last year, Berlin's superstar DJ Paul Van Dyk might now assume the title of hardest-working man in show business. Or in any event, Van Dyk and his flight...

Bouncer

Caffe Shines During Visit From Oliver Twist and Bouncer

By Katy St. Clair

Published: September 26, 2007

I have a thing for orphans. My favorite writer is Charles Dickens, and all my favorite stories have orphans in them. That's probably why I like retarded people so much. Many of them were abandoned...

Eat

Pizza Smackdown

SoCal chain goes head to head with hometown favorite

By Robert Lauriston

Published: September 26, 2007

The history of few culinary trends can be recounted as precisely as that of California pizza. In 1980, Alice Waters, inspired by her travels in Italy and meals at Tommaso's, made a wood-burning...

Fresh Eats

A Weekly Listing of new Restaurants Around Town

Published: September 26, 2007

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . Avedano's Holly Park Market: 235 Cortland (at Bonview), 285-MEAT, www.avedanos.com . Bernal Heights . Deli, organic meats. Bossa Nova: 139...

Film

Wide Open Spaces

Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

By Scott Foundas

Published: September 26, 2007

To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992, will never be anything more...